The “Appeal to Heaven” flag, as it is commonly called ... s leadership of the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War, a history that Alito, Johnson and others point to when defending ...

Ted Kaye, secretary for the North American Vexillological Association, which studies flags and their meaning, said the “Appeal to Heaven” banner dates to the Revolutionary War. Six schooners ...

He declined to comment on the "Appeal to Heaven" flag flown outside his beach house. The Revolutionary War–era white-and-evergreen "Appeal to Heaven" flag had fallen "into obscurity" until it ...

The flag in question features a green pine tree on a white background with the motto: “An Appeal to Heaven ... early years of the American Revolutionary War. It was also carried by some ...

Not on the flag ... Heaven” flag, which had also been spotted outside Justice Samuel A. Alito’s New Jersey vacation home. Originally flown by George Washington’s ships in the Revolutionary ...